About the editor

Coastal Packet is edited by Sam Smith, who covered Washington under nine presidents, has edited the Progressive Review for 53 years, wrote four books, been published in five anthologies, helped to start six organizations (including the the national Green Party and the DC Statehood Party), was a plaintiff in three successful class action suits, served as a Coast Guard officer, and played in jazz bands for four decades. Albeit from away, he first started coming to Maine in 1946, and now lives here full time.